Best Start: Community, Parenting Aspirations and Parenting Skills

The Community, Parenting Aspirations and Parenting Skills service, is based on the model of realising socialcapital within communities by facilitating and supporting parents to become community builders, volunteers andparent champions. By building on existing community assets, it is hoped that this programme of community support will be able tosupport hard to reach mothers, fathers and carers who may have additional stress in their family life and wouldbenefit from an informal peer led support network. Support programmes have been commissioned to meet localised need within the borough, and will provide aflexible approach across the lifetime of the contracts. The Contract will be for 2 years with a possible 1 year extension.